A video released on Thursday by ISIS shows members of the terrorist organization destroying ancient Assyrian artifacts at Mosul Museum. Archaeologists told the UK’s Channel 4 that many if not all of the sculptures shown being smashed at the Mosul Museum are in fact replicas of the originals.. snap.

Season of the witch: why young women are flocking to the ancient craft | World news

The Guardian

February 25, 2015

Rapper Azealia Banks brought witchcraft back into the mainstream by tweeting ‘I’m really a witch’. But women in the US have been harnessing its power for decades as a ‘spiritual but not religious’ way to express feminist ambitions

Another day, another artist's work is put to commercial use without permission. The latest victim is New York–based photographer Asger Carlsen, who took to Instagram to point out a startling similarity between a piece from his 2010 series Wrong and

Poor Jack White just can't catch a break with the media, it seems: first, his tour rider was leaked by the University of Oklahoma's student newspaper, where it was revealed he likes a very specific type of guacamole; then, NPR took a gentle ribbing to the ride ...